The asteroid officially known as 52768 (1998 OR2) is one of those rare cosmic visitors large
enough to rewrite human history, yet destined to slip past us in eerie silence.
Measuring up to 4 kilometers across and moving at 8.7 kilometers per second, it will cross Earth’s orbit on June 2nd,
missing us by a comfortable margin in astronomical terms, but uncomfortably close in human imagination.UB
